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Alliteration Ink presents

What Fates Impose

Life is uncertain, and the chance to get a peek into the future is so tempting... but is it really a good idea to look?

With this Kickstarter project, we're asking for help to publish a book of short stories called What Fates Impose. We want to pay the authors professional rates for their writing and offer you the chance to get the book before anyone else. Your contributions will help us to make this book a reality.

Edited by Nayad A. Monroe, this anthology brings together stories from a diverse group of speculative fiction writers who show the possibilities of what can go right or very wrong when people get predictions of their future. There's a full list of the authors and their story titles to be found if you scroll down this page. The book also includes cover artwork by Steven C. Gilberts, and an introduction by Alasdair Stuart.

The contributors have won a wide range of awards for their previous work, including the Bram Stoker Award, a Nebula Award, an AU Shadows Award, an Origins "Cleo" Award, a silver ENnie Award, the Authorlink! New Authors Award, a Octavia Butler Scholarship, and multiple other recognitions across the industry.

You can pre-order copies of What Fates Impose. Most of the reward levels listed to the right include the eBook (you get all three formats: PDF, ePub, and Kindle). You can pre-order a paperback copy of the book for as little as $20 at the JUST THE BOOK reward level (and above).

We also offer add-ons for more copies to ANY REWARD LEVEL! For extra copies of the eBook, add $10 per copy to the reward level of your choice, whether it already includes the book or not. For copies of the paperback, add $20 per copy to any level.

You can choose any combination of any number of extra copies; just add the total price of your copies to the amount you pledge. At the end of the project we'll send you a survey so you can let us know exactly what you ordered (see the FAQ at the bottom of this page for more details).

At present, the contributors are:

Introduction by Alasdair Stuart:
"Singing from the Book of Holy Jagger"

Exciting stretch
goals! Once the authors get paid, we would love to add value to the
book by including more stories and interior artwork.
That's up to you! Our plan is to release What Fates Impose in
late summer, 2013.We will deeply appreciate all pledges and efforts
to tell your friends about this anthology.

Who we are

Alliteration Inkis run by Steven Saus
(member SFWA/HWA), focusing on anthologies and single-author
collections, with ten titles across two imprints. The most
recent publication by Alliteration Ink is Sidekicks!. In
2013, Alliteration Ink additionally has plans to publish the
multi-author anthology Steampunk World, edited by Sarah Hans,
and single-author works from Alethea Kontis, Leslie Anderson, Neal
Litherland, and KW Taylor.

Nayad A. Monroe
read over 5,000 submissions for the Hugo Award-winning semiprozine,
Clarkesworld Magazine, before she started to work on becoming
an anthology editor. Several of her short stories have been
published in various anthologies, such as: Space Grunts:
Full-Throttle Space Tales #3, Space Tramps: Full-Throttle Space Tales
#5, The Crimson Pact: Volume Two, and
Sidekicks! She has
also contributed an interview with Tim Powers to Writers
Workshop of Science Fiction and Fantasy, and
her story, "Quintuple-A," is scheduled to be made into a
short film by Wild Hawk Entertainment. She blogs at
http://nayadmonroe.blogspot.com/.
You can find her making odd remarks on Twitter as @Nayad.

More About The Other eBook Rewards

"...fine examples of speculative poetry that manage to cut a razor's edge between funny and poignant without alienating a reader." - Aaron Polson, SkullSaladReviews

Kicking the Habit by Steven Saus

This collection contains the following:

Zombies
looking for love. Robots looking for redemption. Time traveling
honeymooners. Slaveowners summoning demons. The last scion of an alien
empire hiding in the Old West. Vampires that don't sparkle. Fairies
that don't sing. Other unnatural colors and flavors.

Side effects may include: emotion.

The Karen Wilson Chronicles by Jennifer Brozek

Kendrick is a city alive in more ways than one. Its borders contain a hidden world composed of secret societies, the supernatural, the lost, and the unexplained. It is the world that Karen, a 911 operator, is thrust into. With enemies on all sides, unknown allies, and a baby gargoyle, what she finds will change her life forever.

Her Majesty's Wizard by Christopher Stasheff (Book I of A Wizard in Rhyme)

WANTED: A SUPERWIZARD! Matt didn’t know the scrap of
parchment was a trap. So he read the lines--and found himself on a world
where reciting verses worked magic.

Oathbound Wizard by Christopher Stasheff (Book II of A Wizard in Rhyme)

Matt Mandrell, unsuspecting graduate student,
never imagined his research would lead him to a strange scrap of
parchment that would change his life forever...

The Templar's Bowl by Peter D’Alessio

In 1942, German submarines prowled the Canadian
coastline, searching for the lost Templar treasure... and its most
powerful spiritual object, the Holy Grail. All that stands between
Hitler and world domination are three ghosts of long-dead Templar
Knights... and their newest recruit: the sickly, wheelchair-bound child
Richard.

Uncle Merl’s Bar and Grill by Peter D’Alessio

Welcome to a comedic urban fantasy about dragons and
demons, mortals and magic, vampires and… baseball? Yes, baseball! You’d
be surprised how much baseball has to do with human history - and you
can hear it all from the dragons hanging out at Uncle Merl’s Bar and
Grill in Newark! But as Merlin the bartender will tell you, don’t try to
talk to them when they’re watching a Mets game.

Risks and challenges

In all projects that involve contributions from multiple people and companies, there's the possibility of an unexpected delay here or there. We already have the cover art and all of the listed stories in our hands, but there are details, revisions, and production schedules to consider. We will do our best to get this book to you on schedule.

Kickstarter is not a store.

Pledge $4 or more
About $4

Fortune Cookie Deluxe: Thank you for supporting this project! You'll be listed (if you wish) as a supporter in both the print and eBook edition of the book, and will get a PDF of an origami fortune teller with customized fortunes from Wendy N. Wagner.

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Pledge $30 or more
About $30

Tea Leaves and Cocktails and Charms: You get everything from the Tea Leaves and Cocktails level plus a small, hand-carved wooden charm from Ifugao Province in the Philippines, and a signed postcard with an Ifugao saying, from Rochita Loenen-Ruiz.

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Pledge $35 or more
About $35

Palmistry: You'll get everything from the Tea Leaves and Cocktails level, plus eBook copies (PDF/ePub/Kindle formats) of "See No Evil, Say No Evil" by Matt Betts (published by Alliteration Ink) and "Kicking the Habit and Other Stories" by Steven Saus.

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Pledge $40 or more
About $40

Palmistry and Calligraphy: Palmistry level plus a personality type calligraphy card. The Myers-Briggs or StrengthFinders personality type of your choice, along with a brief description of the personality type, written in calligraphy on a 4" x 6" card by LaShawn M. Wanak.

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Pledge $40 or more
About $40

Palmistry and Karen Wilson: You get everything from the Palmistry level plus Karen Wilson Chronicles eBooks by Jennifer Brozek. Includes a pre-release advance review copy of the third Karen Wilson Chronicles book!

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Pledge $95 or more
About $95

I Ching: You'll get everything from the Numerology level, plus a fiction collaboration with Tim Waggoner.

Details: Up to 15 pages/3,750 words of story, with the work divided equally. One idea-generating session. One complete collaborative rough draft. One complete collaborative final draft. An agreement about the final contents signed off on by both collaborators, after which any changes can only be made to editorial order, and by agreement of both collaborators. Both names to be credited, in the order chosen by the publishing editor. A 50/50 split of any monetary compensation.

Kickstarter is not a store.

Pledge $95 or more
About $95

I Ching Again: You'll get everything from the Numerology level, plus a fiction collaboration with Maurice Broaddus. Details: Up to 15 pages/3,750 words of story, with the work divided equally. One idea-generating session. One complete collaborative rough draft. One complete collaborative final draft. An agreement about the final contents signed off on by both collaborators, after which any changes can only be made to editorial order, and by agreement of both collaborators. Both names to be credited, in the order chosen by the publishing editor. A 50/50 split of any monetary compensation.